Twenty-four Modern Mostly Fiction Works

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Modern Firsts

By Bonhams Skinner

Nov 1, 2021 - Nov 10, 2021

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An intimate sale featuring a single-owner collection of mostly modern first edition books, many signed, including literature, fiction, and nonfiction works. This auction has something for everyone! Bonhams Skinner bidsquare@bonhamsskinner.com

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  Twenty-four Modern Mostly Fiction Works, Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon. Alfred A. Knopf, facsimile of original 1930 first edition hardcover and slipcase, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Hamsun, Knut, Translated by Arthur G. Chater, Mysteries. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, second printing, (condition: very good, no dust jacket); Hamsun, Knut, Translated by James W. McFarlane, Pan. Artemis Press, 1955, first U.K. edition, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good); Hanson, Victor Davis, Carnage & Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. Doubleday & Co., 2001, first edition hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: fine); Hanson, Victor Davis, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. Random House, 2005, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Hanson, Victor Davis, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think. Doubleday, 2003, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Harari, Yuval Noah, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harvill Secker, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: fine); Harms, Robert, The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Basic Books, 2002, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Harrison, Lawrence E. & Samuel P. Huntington (Editors), Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Basic Books, 2000, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Hartman, Andrew, A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars. University of Chicago Press, 2015, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Hartman, Andrew, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School. Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, no dust jacket); Haruf, Kent, Plainsong. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Haruf, Kent, The Tie that Binds. Holt Rinehard & Winston, 1984, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Haruf, Kent, Where You Once Belonged. Summit Books, 1990, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Hatch, Nathan O., The Democratization of American Christianity. Yale University Press, 1989, softcover, (condition: fine, no dust jacket); Hawkins, Paula, The Girl on the Train. Riverhead Books, 2015, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Hazzard, Shirley, The Great Fire. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2003, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Heller, Zoe, The Believers. Penguin Fig Tree, 2008, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Heller, Zoe, Everything You Know. Viking, 1999, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Heller, Zoe, What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal. Henry Holt, 2003, first edition signed hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: near fine); Helprin, Mark, Paris in the Present Tense. Overlook Press, 2017, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Herken, Gregg, The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014, first edition hardcover, (condition: as new, dust jacket condition: as new); Higgins, George V., The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, first edition hardcover, (condition: fine, dust jacket condition: fine); Highsmith, Patricia, Folie A Deux: Three Novels: Strangers on a Train; The Talented Mr. Ripley; This Sweet Sickness. Book-of-the-Month Club, 1988, hardcover, (condition: very good, dust jacket condition: very good).

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